- cross-posted to:
- stuffandsuch
- cross-posted to:
- stuffandsuch
New Ed! Not much particularly new info, just a general lament and summary of the state of tech and how much has been pinned on magical thinking. Has some wonderfully quotable sections.
What if what we’re seeing today isn’t a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What if artificial intelligence isn’t actually capable of doing much more than what we’re seeing today, and what if there’s no clear timeline when it’ll be able to do more? What if this entire hype cycle has been built, goosed by a compliant media ready and willing to take career-embellishers at their word?
Please forgive my addition to the title, as it’s meant to be a play on “Waiting for Godot”, not a comment on the Godot game engine. Wanted to make that more clear than the title alone would.
Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers, where kids get hammered with the play whether or not they have any idea what it is
out in the world, ~nobody has heard of the game engine
@dgerard @TunaCowboy
I assumed it was an AI company I hadn’t heard of. But the play was my next guess. I have not seen or read the play. I do know that Gandalf and Picard were in a production.
in my texas high school we read atlash shrugged1 and the davinci code
1: don’t tell my teacher but i sparknotes’d this one
Throwback Thursday: Atlas Shrugged: The Cobra Commander Dialogues
(Based on blog posts now available here.)
Hmm, I don’t think ignoring the American audience like that is a good idea, but maybe he has his reasons